Author Tells How Unlikely Female Entrepreneur Defied Taliban

In her new book “The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe”  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, foreign policy expert, former ABC News reporter and Harvard MBA introduces readers to the “breadwinners in burqas” who became successful entrepreneurs against all odds. 

 Lemmon tells the story of a real-life heroine, a young entrepreneur whose business created jobs and hope for women in her neighborhood during the Taliban years.

Event co-sponsor Elm Street Books will sell copies, which will be available for signing afterward.